bandushrew

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by bandushrew 6y ago
The internet sees censorshop as damage, and routes around it.
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by bandushrew 6y ago
unless they burn every year.
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by bandushrew 6y ago
huh. Thats such a weird place to go. It was only the automatic weapons, Im pretty sure any suicidal men could probably still hit themselves in the head with a single shot from a distance of 0.2 feet...
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by bandushrew 6y ago
in NZ suicides were down over the lockdown period.
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by bandushrew 6y ago
Thats overstating it a little. or even a lot. Nobody has been in those places for more than a month, its 2 weeks. The 'escapees' so far have been an alcoholic (went to the nearest bottle store) and a couple of people with mental
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by bandushrew 6y ago
Trump should definitely not ever, ever, EVER have endorsed a drug that was not thoroughly tested for the purpose he was recommending it. that was insane. Everything that followed makes sense...of course the entire scientific and medical w
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by bandushrew 6y ago
oh, absolutely. Im fascinated to see how it plays out myself. The plan for the next couple of months at least seems to be to require a 2-3 week quarantine for people coming into the country, which is definitely going to cause continued harm
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by bandushrew 6y ago
NZ shutdown for six weeks (depending on how you count of course) and is reopening now, we have had no new cases at all for 12 days. Effective leadership early on is effective.
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by bandushrew 6y ago
Everyone wants to get on with their lives, but at what cost? thats what it comes down to. We will either pay in economic damage, lost lives or (looking likely) both. Again, I dont understand the rush to throw so many lives under the bus w
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by bandushrew 6y ago
On a different note, I will say it is massively interesting to me that someone who claims to be anti-authoritarian is recommending everyone in society return to work in an orderly fashion to save the economy. Which side do of that argument
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by bandushrew 6y ago
yeah, we got lucky with our leadership and with our island status. ", where there were hundreds of thousands of infections" well, EVENTUALLY, there were hundreds of thousands of infections. at one point there were, famously, 15..
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by bandushrew 6y ago
We're in NZ, its feeling likely at the moment that the date will be wednesday. OTOH we have been incredibly lucky with both our leadership and our island status. the US is a huge state, with porous borders so the right choice might be
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by bandushrew 6y ago
Its not about me. The benefit comes when the community as a whole does it, there is literally no point to anyone doing it alone, unless they are vulnerable. "What do we do next?" Figure out the best way to treat covid, and talk ab
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by bandushrew 6y ago
Sure, we cant shutdown forever, but I dont understand the rush to sacrifice. Covid will be with us forever now, and in just a few months we already understand a lot more about it than we did at the start. The longer we can delay mass infect
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by bandushrew 6y ago
Sure, we cant shutdown forever, but I dont understand the rush to sacrifice. Covid will be with us forever now, and in just a few months we already understand a lot more about it than we did at the start. The longer we can delay mass infect
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by bandushrew 6y ago
That analysis is a perfectly good 'model', but it makes a few interesting/weird choices and assumptions of its own. "The true burden of the epidemic can be calculated by applying an factor of around 0.15 to the number of
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by bandushrew 7y ago
Im not sure you have thought through the consequences of citizens owning military grade arms. It (arguably) removes the government as a threat, but replaces the threat with other citizens. It seems to me that history teaches that in the abs
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by bandushrew 7y ago
That is objectively wrong though, isn't it? The government absolutely can, and does, pass laws to legally take anyone's stuff for any reason it likes. If that is your bottom line, then almost every government in almost every count
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by bandushrew 7y ago
Stack Overflow is declining, except it's still so well populated with moderators that the author of the article struggled to be able to answer a question quickly enough for it to matter, and he can find no alternatives to it that work
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by bandushrew 7y ago
Who cares? My kids use scratch. its awesome. Couldn't care less who funded it originally.
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by bandushrew 7y ago
Its the difference between whether you believe you are using HTTP as a transport mechanism or you believe you are using it to create a DSL protocol. Personally I prefer to think of HTTP as a transport mechanism, with business logic at a h
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by bandushrew 7y ago
https://www.pewinternet.org/2015/05/20/americans-attitudes-a... ""93% of adults say that being in control of who can get information about them is important; 74% feel this is “very important,” while
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by bandushrew 7y ago
I dunno, maybe thats asking the wrong question? Im not sure why you are focused on contact information? I can easily imagine people not caring about third parties knowing their phone number and email, thats already a lost battle. Everyone
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by bandushrew 7y ago
"incremental rewrites are best, but only if you can get the business to actually use the greenfield project. " That completely fits my experience. If the new code is being used early and can grow iteratively while being relevant
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by bandushrew 7y ago
You are completely wrong, in my experience. I just recently had a chat with my 80 year old mum, and SHE was shocked and unhappy to find that google tracks her search history, let alone everything else. I found myself in the unexpected po
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by bandushrew 7y ago
it really does provide a very nice and effective standard way to bundle components needed by an app altogether and to manage them appropriately. The developers in this case didn't bother trying to use it.
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by bandushrew 7y ago
that is explicitly incorrect. macos has a very nice and effective way of packaging all the components needed by an app into tidy bundles. the problem in this case is that the developers just couldn't be assed even trying.
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by bandushrew 7y ago
"I cant know" is a subset of "I dont know" "I dont know" was absolutely the correct answer.
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by bandushrew 7y ago
4/5 I tricked myself into thinking I could figure out the last one....oops.
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by bandushrew 7y ago
Your comment is so weird, and I see this more and more on the internet. In that article there is evidence gathered by people over a 20 year period, its an amazing effort which in many ways represents the very best that science has to offer.

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